Iran's Nuclear Issue: A Literature Review

The nuclear issue is one of the most important issues in foreign policy as well as domestic policy of the I. R. Iran. To better understand different aspects of this issue, political analysts should be familiar with the literature in this area and diversity of discourses on this hot issue. There are different views about Iran’s nuclear issue bearing different interpretations from the meaning and importance of this problem. The aim of present article is to assess the current literature and to understand different views on Iran’s nuclear issue. Reading different discourses, the author would give a categorization of the literature in this area as history-oriented, law-oriented, impact-oriented, solution-oriented and finally intention-oriented.